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…Jervis, who achieved the final design of the Aqueduct and its major structures and led the complex construction effort. Work began in 1837,
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…To do so the Aqueduct was cut into hillsides, set level on
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active days of the Aqueduct, overseers in charge of patrolling and maintaining specific sections of this infrastructure vital to New York City were provided with houses on or near the section of the tunnel for which they were responsible. (See…
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…There its green corridor, managed by New York Parks & Recreation, follows a southward route through Van Cortlandt Park, past the east edge of Jerome Park Reservoir and along Aqueduct and University avenues to the
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York City's Water Story [1] Archived 2018-12-02 at the Wayback Machine "How a Massive Public Works Project Saved a Parched New York," by SAM ROBERTS, New York Times, December 4, 2017 Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park…
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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
They both supply the aqueduct of Batchikeui, which, as has already been stated, furnishes the suburbs of Pera and Galata with water. Beyond Belgrade are other reservoirs which will be elsewhere noticed. These supply Constantinople proper, with water. " In order…
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Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct , New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843. View looking east, showing the smaller arch over what is today Aqueduct Street on the far left. F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct , New York: Wiley…
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about maintaining the Aqueduct HERE ) The only one of these houses that survives in its original location is the classic, brick Italianate-designed structure on the trail at Walnut Street in Dobbs Ferry. The Keeper’s House was built in…
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…The gravity-fed aqueduct dropped 13 inches per mile, 1/4" per 100' (~0.02%). An elliptical tube, 8.5 feet (2.6m) high by 7.5 feet (2.3m) wide, of iron piping encased in brick
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…Croton water first entered the Aqueduct at 5 am on June 22, 1842 (followed by a dauntless crew in
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…A fuller history of the Aqueduct can be found a the Ossining Heritage Area and Keeper’s House visitor centers and in “Water for
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…The Keeper's House in Dobbs Ferry was built in 1857 and is the only remaining of four Keeper's Houses that is both on the aqueduct and open to the public. The only other remaining Keeper's House is…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…There are six of these waste-weirs constructed for the Aqueduct. VENTILATORS. For the purpose of ventilation hollow cylinders of stone are erected over the top of the Aqueduct and rising about 14 feet above the surface of the ground…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
BRIDGE ENGINEER’S Office c 1840s (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Sign Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) 17 HIGH BRIDGE TOWER 1872 Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Type Rising 185 feet on a bluff in…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The greatest height of this Aqueduct is 90 feet. It is constructed entirely of cut stone. The quantity of water furnished by it is about 300,000 gallons in twenty-four hours. Aqueduct of Spoleto. This Aqueduct was constructed in…
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…For most of its length, the Aqueduct is a horseshoe-shaped brick tunnel 8.5 feet high by 7.5 feet wide, set on a stone foundation and protected with an earthen cover and stone facing at embankment walls.
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km) (at a velocity of 1.86 miles per hour [2.99 km/h; 2.73 ft/s]) to reach Manhattan. [ 7 ] The Croton Aqueduct opened to public use with great fanfare on October 14, 1842. The day-long celebration…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
A view is given of the Aqueduct of Spoleto, in Italy. The bridge supporting this Aqueduct is remarkable for the slender form of the piers and their great height; being only ten and a half feet thick and two hundred…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…This would not carry the work up to the level of the Aqueduct, and would render it necessary to connect the Aqueduct on each side of the valley by iron pipes which would descend to the level of the bridge…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…he enclosed the town with new walls, built baths, and probably the Aqueduct of the bridge of Gard ("pont du Gard") for bringing water to them. This Aqueduct is nearly thirty miles in length, forming, in its course, the figure…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…From remains of this Aqueduct which are now found at various points along its course, it appears to have required many expensive structures for crossing valleys ; in one instance the Aqueduct bridge was 3,600 feet long, and the greatest…
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old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Characters were also added to the final versions of Aqueduct Bridge for Roadway, also engraved by Bennett, and Croton Aqueduct at Jewell's Brook, engraved by John William Hill. "I gain information and pleasure by talking with the artists who…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…he enclosed the town with new walls, built baths, and probably the Aqueduct of the bridge of Gard ("pont du Gard") for bringing water to them. This Aqueduct is nearly thirty miles in length, forming, in its course, the figure…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The lowest point in the pipes is 102 feet below the bottom of the water way of the Aqueduct on the north side of the valley. From Manhattan Valley the Aqueduct passes through a tunnel, and following its course the…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Another thing that the kids loved were the culverts, which were tunnels that were built by the engineers either underneath the aqueduct or over the top of the aqueduct. The job of the culvert was to divert water from streams…
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NYPL, Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views
High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct — Stereoscopic View (1864) Stereoscopic photograph of the High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River, from the Robert N. Dennis collection. Stereoscopic views were the 3D photography of the Victorian era — viewed through a…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/03/30/croton-aqueduct-puzzles/
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles Croton Aqueduct Puzzles This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/03/30/croton-aqueduct-puzzles/
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles Croton Aqueduct Puzzles This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880…
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…There are six of these waste-weirs constructed for the Aqueduct. VENTILATORS. For the purpose of ventilation hollow cylinders of stone are erected over the top of the Aqueduct and rising about 14 feet above the surface of the ground…
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